#Symphonie fantastique

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Bon Matin 🌹🖤🎈🕊

R.I.P 🙏 ....Seiji Ozawa 🎵 Symphonie Fantastique (H.Berlioz)

(Live at Tanglewood in 2002)

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All dressed up for the symphony last night ^^

Y’all know me; I take any opportunity to dress up and be dramatic, and last night was no exception :)

Rachel Barton Pine was touring the NMM before her concert with the South Dakota Symphony, and she very kindly offered complimentary tickets to anyone at the museum who wanted to go, so mom and I were able to go along with a couple of lovely people from the museum, and it was such a wonderful time!! We had a great evening, and the concert was incredible <333

Take care lovelies!! <333

Also…

I’m noticing I look prettier and happier and just way more myself without a man… will continue to be the mysterious single lady turning heads for the foreseeable future, it’s great fun ;)

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Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan)

18/04/2024

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I'm going to train myself to recognize classical music in movies and TV, so I can be like the people who always point out the scene in Lord of the Rings where Viggo Mortensen broke his tow, and be like 'yeah, that's inspired by the Dies Irae, it's a Gregorian funeral chant'

[musicianrambles]

As someone who largely listens to music on YouTube, having the 4th movement of symphonie fantastique as my no.1 on wrapped is weird.

[doyoueverstopandthink]

the way hector berlioz really went “what if i take a genuinely batshit fucking crazy amount of opium while obsessing creepily over this actress that doesn’t know who i am” and somehow ended up composing a literal masterpiece of music

[agertushistoryofmusic]

Romantic Music I: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

There are a handful of compositions that changed music history. This is one of them. Still a student, Berlioz became obsessed with an actress. The result was a work of startling originality, the first true Romantic composition: Symphonie Fantastique.

And so we begin with Hector Berlioz, the original tortured Romantic in an era that was full of them.  Musicologists routinely talk about the “Three Bs”—Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.  But for me, the third “B” has been and always will be Berlioz.  And I’m not alone: The original phrase, coined in the 1850s, specifically included Berlioz and I know many musicians who share my view.  Berlioz, however,…

[franzliszt-official]

Good afternoon/evening Mr Liszt :) I was listening to Symphonie fantastique and I was wondering if Totentanz was inspired by it?

Good morning my dear pupil.

I suppose listening to the Songe d'une nuit de sabbat sparked this doubt. Although our very strong friendship certainly has had some effect on the both of us - "Hamlet" he used to call me, Hector a fervent atheist with the strongest mystical experiences I have ever encountered - I'd suppose the clearest bond between our musical choices would be his idea to include the Hungarian march in La damnation de Faust, with all that the Ràkòczi March meant for me and all Hungarians abroad.

In the Symphonie Fantastique he included the gregorian canon for the Dies irae, which outdates us all by many centuries and has always been a stable for all students of music. Such a coincidence is incidental. The Dies irae has been the basis for my "Dance of the Dead", Totentanz, as a self-explaining motive, and for some other compositions of mine such as one of the Mephisto-Walzer. The Totentanz, though its name nevertheless would suggest the such, has not been inspired by a chorea macabæorum, but by the medieval fresco called Triumph of Death located in the Monumental Cemetery in the Square of Miracles in Pisa. Its subject is the topos of three bodies found in the woods, that of a peasant, of a noble and a clergyman, all equal in death, and the struggle between forces of Good and Evil to capture the souls of the dead and condemn them either to Eternal Death or to be saved.

I enclose pictorial representation and video re-enactment from 17:50 onward

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thought I was done classical composers lore posting for the day and then I saw this

[paul-archibald]

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

The great 19th century French composer Hector Berlioz holds a unique place in musical history. Far ahead of his time, he was one of the most original of great composers, but also an innovator as a practical musician, superb conductor, a writer and critic whose literary achievement is hardly less significant than his musical output. Few musicians have ever excelled in all these different fields at…

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shoutout to the original delulu girl, Hector Berlioz ❤️

[majestativa]

They were playing Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique : the final notes of the last movement, the ‘Songe d’une nuit du Sabbath’ were just dying away.

— Kurt Martens, The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss, transl by Ray Furness and Mike Mitchell, (1994)

[brazenedminstrel]

16, 17 & 20 for the music asks!

16: One of your favorite classical songs

I will give you, as answer to this near-impossible question, Saint-Saëns' Le Cygne. It was my first 'favorite' classical piece when I was 11, and it's still very very dear to me now.

17: A song you would sing a duet with on karaoke

Come sing Gentleman Jack with me in that one karaoke bar in Berlin

20: A song that has many meanings to you

You ask this question to me? Me?? I can find a hundred meanings in any song because isn't that what we do for a living? You come into my house and - oh wait you already live there too

What do you mean Berlioz? Has the Artist died and is this Hell? Has he taken poison but failed and now dreams a horrid nightmare of his Beloved turned into the devil? Is he hearing his own funeral bell toll? Was this all an elaborate metaphor for your own sad life and the incoming French Revolution??

I am normal about the Symphonie Fantastique!

[musicianrambles]

Thinking about how the Nutcracker Pas De Deux ends has a descending G Major scale in the cellos to represent tranquility and to immediately establish the sugar plum fairy and Symphonie Fantastique March to the Scaffold has a descending G Minor scale to represent energy and fear and to immediately establish the procession to death and although these are far from the only details that feed into the imagery of said pieces they do play a big role in letting the audience know what they're in for and it's interesting that Tchaikovsky and Berlioz had such similar ideas completely independently from each other.

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At the symphony opening night tonight and I'm having some potent nostalgia 🥰

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